The building in the downpour was steeped in an almost dead silent darkness.
With his ear pressed against the door, Bai Zhi patiently listened for any movement outside.
If nothing unexpected had happened, Yue Mu was probably already dead. If he had noticed something was wrong sooner, he might have been able to escape disaster... Unfortunately, that guy had run too fast.
Of course, there had actually still been a way for him to survive.
—For example, after noticing something was wrong, he could have gritted his teeth and kept running downward, then cleverly chosen a floor to hide on. Running upward meant certain death.
However, hearing the faint sound amid the downpour outside, as if something were crawling across the ground on all fours, Bai Zhi felt that the other's chances of survival were slim.
"So it did come looking for him..."
Letting out a quiet breath, Bai Zhi stealthily moved away from the door.
At the same time, at the fifth-floor stairwell, a blurry black shadow silently appeared.
The black shadow followed the scattered water stains and messy footprints on the floor forward, all the way toward the restroom.
Whether it was the boys' dormitory or the girls' dormitory, the bathrooms were all located at the end of the corridor, on the side near the stairwell. Inside, against the wall, there were two rows of stalls.
There were more than ten stalls in total, all painted dark blue and covered in dust. On the door of the innermost stall was a particularly conspicuous handprint, difficult to make out in the darkness.
...Creak... Creak...
Accompanied by a string of strange creaking sounds, the black shadow crawled up to the stall door, then slowly climbed up the door panel from the very top.
But when the black shadow looked down